[OS X TeX] how open directories in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

[Michael Sharpe]

On Nov 5, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> Instructions at http://www.pctex.com/kb/74.html say to put files for the PCTeX MathTimePro II and Lucida fonts into /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. But some of the subdirectories of the latter simply will not open in finder -- even after I change their permissions to make them readable and writeable by me (and I have administrator privileges).
> 
> This is the case, e.g., with the doc and source subdirectories.
> 
> Is there some way -- other than having to use long commands in Terminal to see what's there and to copy files to there?
> 

Terminal installation is not hard, and you can do serious damage trying to install with Finder. Just cd to the folder containing your downloaded lucida fonts and support files---you should see at the top level folders named doc, fonts, etc. Then type

sudo cp -rf * /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

You will have to provide a password when asked.

Then type

sudo mktexlsr

to inform the tex databases about the new files, then 

sudo -H updmap-sys --enable Map=lucida.map

to create the required entries in your system map files.

Michael